I vote for A.
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I vote option a again.
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The newest allegations - that there were parties while the Queen was in mourning, I think throw up some interesting comparisons.
The current government has warped out basic understanding of how leaders should operate so far that even the biggest and most obvious things become question marks.
I think whatever your view on the monarchy, and I say this as a strong anti-monarchist, watching the Queen mourn for her husband alone was heart breaking. And also, it was a symbol of what being a leader in society should look like - enduring the personal suffering alongside whatās expected of the people you lead.
Johnson just didnāt do that. He saw himself as above and beyond and devised strategies to hide or lie what he was up to. He expected (and still expects) the police around Downing Street to let him get away with things because of who he was. He didnāt feel the need for him or those around him to make the sacrifices others were making.
Politics aside he just isnāt respectable as a leader.
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You just have to look at how heās treated by both politicians and press in other countries to see this. The politicians donāt fall for his ācharming anticsā and the press have no need to humour him.
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He didnāt think the rules applied to him when he was a member of the Bullingdon Club, or when he was a journalist, or when he was Mayor of London, or when he was Foreign Secretary, or now heās Prime Minister. And yet some people still vote for him in the expectation he might change.
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As an avid player of Wiff Waff, Iām in camp BJ
Although, like the French, I do enjoy seeing a dinner table and grasping the opportunity to have dinner on it.
āOperation Save Big Dogā
āOperation Red meatā
Methinks Bojo is clutching at straws now.
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I think heāll face a leadership vote, but survive it
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Well, it might be a few weeks early and timed around other things going on (ahem), but it looks like restrictions are ending with cross party support. Plan B restrictions (masks, work from home orders) to end next week, and self-isolation measures by March 24.
The WHO has also said Britain is nearing the end of the pandemic. It does look like, by April we will have moved back to a fully functional society (albeit one with endemic Covid-19). Just over two years since we started to find out about something called āCovid-19ā emerging in China, and personally I couldnāt be more glad that we have an end in sight.
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Me too, although Iāll still have to be careful since Iām immunocompromised. Got my 4th jab this week.
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This decision is political, not scientific. Covid is not over, the NHS is still under pressure - but hey, spinning out some āgood newsā might buy the Big Dog (
) some more time, eh?
Iāll still be masking up for the foreseeable. Thereās still a long way to go with vaccinating the world to stave of the threat of future variants. Omicron seems to be going away, but thereās no telling what Pi will be like, or Rho, or Sigma, or Tau. Any one of them could develop a nastier mutation that catches us out.
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This shows the desperate lengths they will go to just to distract from the current criticism. Something simple like retaining masks on public transport or in workplaces could do so much to protect the vulnerable. But let the bodies pile high eh.
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Which is evident by the final two sentences of Borisās statement earlier, where he made reference to their still being 16k in hospital and stating āthe pandemic is not overā. Which I felt undid everything heād just said about being able to remove restrictions.
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So, the requirement to self isolate if you have covid is going to be removed on 24th march.
(Gaurdian article above, 2nd paragraph)
Given this, then I would assume that any need for testing would become obsolete too?
If you test positive, no need to isolate, if you test negative, no need to isolate, if you donāt test at all, no need to isolate.
If you feel too ill to go to work, school, or even out at all, then Iād hope that folk would stay at home anyway.
I suppose it could be a way of phasing out the free test kits, which have been rumoured to be ending soon.
Can understand where youāre coming from, but I do think weāll see asymptomatic testing drop off a cliff.
Whether thatās a good or bad thing, I suppose weāll just have to wait and see.
The vast majority of people should still be working with a cold.
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Balance. Nothing more, nothing less.
People that can work from home should probably do that. Those that canāt should work if they are able to work.
By the way, what do you mean Japan? Japan is well noted for having the the longest hours and lowest sickness rates in the world. Is this what you are hoping for, or did you mean something else?
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Exactly this, easier to walk in ill and be sent home then say you were ill and them not believing you anyway.
Unfortunately as well SSP doesnāt pay the bills for a lot of people but with isolation ending and lateral flow tests rumoured to be going paid no one will be testing anyway.
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